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HELICOPTER 1-1-1
A turbine-powered Bell YHU.-one.-D Iroquois helicopter
is towed onto the scales at Bell Helicopter's Hurst
plant for official weighing prior to an attempt
to set a new world speed mark.
MED. GUY IN COPTER
The man who . a t to surpass the record now
held by a Russian, is Army pilot Captain William
F. Gurley. The 35-year-old pilot, a native of
Kentucky, is a project officer with the D. 8. Army
Aviation Board at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
TAKE-OFF FROM ABOVE
Gurley will fly a one thousand kilometer course
which will require two round trips between points
near Z ic Hurst and Longview* g The distanceis a little more than 6-hundred 21 miles.
The current
record is just under 88-miles an hour
MEN AND LIGHT
Giant search-lights mark the pylons at each end of
the course which i before dawn this morning.
Captain Gurley brings the helicopter back to the1:17
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Helicopter], script, April 20, 1962; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc946716/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.